New heart preservation method could expand donor pool for transplants
NCT ID NCT05881278
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 18, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study looks at a new way to keep donor hearts healthy during transport for transplantation. It involves 141 adults with heart failure who are on the transplant list. The goal is to see if this method is safe and effective for using hearts from extended criteria donors.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 141 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2023
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Recipient Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥18 years. 2. Signed informed consent form (ICF). 3. Listed for heart transplantation Recipient Exclusion Criteria: 1. Previous solid organ or bone marrow transplantation. 2. Requires a multi-organ transplant. 3. Subject is enrolled and ongoing in another investigational pharmaceutical or medical device clinical trial (Exception: observational studies are permitted). 4. Subject is on mechanical circulatory support pre-transplant other than durable LVAD, Impella or intra-aortic balloon pump. 5. History of complex congenital heart disease ie: single ventricle physiology (Per Investigators discretion). 6. Subject on renal replacement therapy/dialysis. 7. Ventilator dependence (subject is intubated at time of transplant/unable to provide consent or re-affirmation of consent). 8. Sensitized subject is undergoing desensitization treatment. Donor Inclusion Criteria: 1. Estimated Cross Clamp Time ≥ 4 hours, OR 2. Estimated Cross Clamp Time ≥ 2 hours, AND Any ONE or more of the following: * Age ≥ 50 years * LVEF 40-50% at time of provisional acceptance * Down-time ≥ 20 mins * Hypertrophy/Septal thickness \>12- ≤16mm * Angiographic luminal irregularities with no significant CAD, OR 3. Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors. Donor Exclusion Criteria: 1. Unstable hemodynamics requiring high-dose inotropic support. 2. Significantly abnormal coronary angiogram defined as CAD \> 50% stenosis of one or more vessels. 3. Moderate to severe cardiac valve pathology. 4. Investigator's clinical decision to exclude from trial. 5. Previous Sternotomy.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, California, 90048, United States
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, 44195, United States
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York, 10032, United States
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
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Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States
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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, United States
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Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States
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Montefiore Medical Center
The Bronx, New York, 10467, United States
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NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, 10016, United States
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
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Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States
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Stanford Medicine
Palo Alto, California, 94304, United States
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, 75390, United States
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University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, 92037, United States
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University of Maryland Medical Center/University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, United States
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University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, 68198, United States
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
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University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States
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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, 37232, United States
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Washington University - Barnes Jewish Hospital
St Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States
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